Quotes About The Radley Tree

#1. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.

Kate Kerrigan

#2. If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.

James Fenimore Cooper

#3. Humans see what they want to see.

Rick Riordan

#4. He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace.

Louise Penny

#5. Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. I saw a Puffin
In the Bay of Baffin
Sittin on Nuffin
And it was Laffin.

Mervyn Peake

#7. A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#8. Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my dad just had no conception of what this was about, and sort of didn't even want to acknowledge it.

Scott Stossel

#9. Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

Mike McCarthy

#10. I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

Selena Gomez

#12. The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

David Brainerd

#13. If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#14. I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Steve Martin

#15. I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.

Bernhard Schlink